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> might look like a comment, but they are actually just valid bits of code

So comments that are code then.

Everyone can sit around going “This is not a pipe it’s a photo of a pipe or my perception of a photo of a pipe”. But if you did not have a sentence above your photo saying “This is not a pipe” or an arts teacher to tell you “this is not a pipe” and there was just a picture of a pipe on the page and someone pointed at it and said “can you tell me what that is?” You would say “why of course, it’s a pipe”. And then all of a sudden it started spouting water out of the end (let’s assume it was a GIF) then you can say “oh it looks like a pipe but it’s actually a water pistol masquerading as a pipe”. The fact that as a dev you have to constantly be on the look out for water pistols masquerading as pipes rather than having a clear distinction between pipes and water pistols is just a piss poor and easily avoidable design decision.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images